Your
Daily Reprieve for Wednesday May 6, 2020
From Waynesville, NC
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"'I wish it need not
have happened in my time,' said Frodo.
'So do I,' said Gandalf,
'And so do all who live to
see such times.
But that is not for them to
decide.
All we have to decide is
what to do
with the time that is given
us.'"-
~J.R.R. Tolkien
“Once a man was asked,
'what did you gain by
regularly praying to God?'
The man replied,
'nothing...but let me tell you what I lost:
Anger, ego, greed,
depression, insecurity, and fear of death.'
Sometimes, the answer to
our prayers is not gaining but losing;
which ultimately is the
gain."
~Anonymous
“When I begin to worry
about things I can do nothing about,
I tell myself to accept
what you can’t change.
Often I’ve used the ideas in
the Serenity Prayer
as a trigger for
relinquishing my need to control
and as a reminder to take
action
when some discontentment
can be remedied.”
~Grapevine: El Granada,
California, March 1989
"In ordinary life, we
hardly realize
that we receive a great
deal more than we give,
and that it is only with
gratitude that life becomes rich."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Big Book Quote
"In thinking
about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which
course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a
decision. We relax and take it easy. We don't struggle. We are often
surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a
while."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 86 |
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12&12
Step Eleven - "Sought through prayer and meditation to
improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. As the body can fail its purpose for lack of nourishment, so can the soul. We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of His strength, and the atmosphere of His grace. To an amazing extent the facts of A.A. life confirm this ageless truth. pp. 97-98 |
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Twenty-Four Hours
A.A. Thought For The
Day
I've noticed that the ones who do the most for A.A. are not in the habit of boasting about it. The danger of building myself up too much is that, if I do, I'm in danger of having a fall. That pattern of thought goes with drinking. If one side of a boat gets too far up out of the water, it's liable to tip over. Building myself up and drinking go together. One leads to the other. So if I'm going to stay sober, I've got to keep small. Have I got the right perspective on myself? Meditation For The Day The way sometimes seems long and weary. So many people today are weary. The weariness of others must often be shared by me. The weary and the heavy laden, when they come to me, should be helped to find the rest that I have found. There is only one sure cure for world-weariness and that is turning to spiritual things. In order to help bring about the turning of the weary world to God, I must dare to suffer, dare to conquer selfishness in myself, and dare to be filled with spiritual peace in the face of all the weariness of the world. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may be a help to discouraged people. I pray that I may have the courage to help bring about what the weary world needs but does not know how to get. |
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Daily Thought
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(\ ~~ /) ( \ (AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Obsession "The alcoholic has obsessions to an exaggerated degree. Over a period of time he has built up self-pity, resentments toward anyone or anything that interferes with his drinking. Dishonest thinking, prejudice, ego, antagonism toward anyone and everyone who dares to cross him, vanity and a critical attitude are character defects that gradually creep in and become a part of his life. Living with fear and tension inevitably results in wanting to ease that tension, which alcohol seems to do temporarily. It took me some time to realize that the Twelve Steps of A.A. were designed to help correct these defects of character and so help remove the obsession to drink." Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 380-1 Thought to Consider . . . "Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession." Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 139 *~*AACRONYMS*~* B S Before Sobriety |
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Daily Reflection
"HOLD BACK
NOTHING"
The real tests of the
situation are your own willingness to
confide and your full
confidence in the one with whom you
share your first accurate
self-survey. . . . Provided you hold
back nothing, your sense of
relief will mount from minute to
minute. The dammed-up
emotions of years break out of
their confinement, and
miraculously vanish as soon as they
are exposed. As the pain
subsides, a healing tranquility
takes its place.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE
TRADITIONS, p. 61-62
A tiny kernel of locked-in
feelings began to unfold when I
first attended A.A.
meetings and self-knowledge then
became a learning task for
me. This new self-understanding
brought about a change in
my responses to life's situations.
I realized I had the right
to make choices in my life, and the
inner dictatorship of habits
slowly lost its grip.
I believe that if I seek
God I can find a better way to live
and I ask Him daily to
assist me in living a sober life.
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Pot Luck
Correction
is best left to God
April
20
It is not up to you to change your brother, but merely
to accept him as he is.
~~A Course in Miracles
We
all feel qualified to correct another. We may not do this aloud, but we
oftentimes do a great job of it under our breath or in our mind. We are
fortunate if we learn that correcting others is not our job. It is seldom
helpful to them or to us. Correction is best left to God, who knows all the
circumstances.
If we truly need to avoid a
certain person, God will direct us. If not, then it’s spiritually good for us
to accept that person’s defects – perceived or real – in all their glory. If
we insist on seeing error or guilt, we’ll be in the wrong frame of mind to
accept what a blessing he or she is to us.
Every offensive thing someone
does is a call for help. If we answer it with help instead of condemnation or
correction, both of us are blessed.
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I
would rather be blessed than be right.
Casey, Carey and Pyle, Homer, In God’s Care
c1991 April 20
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